General Forum

Better get your memorabilia now as they have suspended operation in year 1. Must not have been well planned to not be able to complete their first season.

While being transported this morning to the airport the driver had ESPN on the radio and some guy talked about this saying basically that society today doesn't want year-round football. I sure don't, and except for one other instance of reading a headline (but not the article) was I even aware of the AAF.

The NFL already has their minor league system - college football, which is still thriving.

The last time I was in Target (about a week or two ago) I saw some blasters for them. Thought about getting one, but I'd rather have the full base set. Don't want a 100 different oddball parallels to inserts, or scrub relics.

I watched some and I enjoy it because I always like watching football. This seemed like it might have a shot as it was being done right in my mind. They weren't trying to compete with the NFL or College as the season was a spring season. They were paying low salaries and building more around guys who couldn't hang on in the NFL and were giving them another chance. They even had TV contracts. It sounds to me like they didn't secure enough funding before going live. What a shame to play 8 of 10 games and fold a month away from your first championship.

Bought a hobby box (24 packs of 10 cards).  Pulled the 3 guaranteed autos, 4 random colored SN parallels, and 4 "Future Stars" inserts.  Out of the other 229 cards, I was pleasantly surprised to get a full 175-card base set.

captkirk42 wrote:

The last time I was in Target (about a week or two ago) I saw some blasters for them. Thought about getting one, but I'd rather have the full base set. Don't want a 100 different oddball parallels to inserts, or scrub relics.

I had planned to go see Memphis Express last saturday but life and weather prevented it, bummer...I was going to go in 2 weeks to last game to see Manziel, but.....oh well

Apparently the investor was more interested in the technology that went into the app that they made.  Seems like once he got that working, the league shut down.

Shame for all the players and coaches who have been busting their butts.

I love lower league sports, and go to games regularly.  But I agree, I don't really want to watch football this time of year.  The indoor sports are getting close to playoffs.  ML Baseball is in its opening week, with minors starting soon.  And all the domestic soccer leagues have started.  Football is completely out of my mind right now.

The XFL needs to just go ahead and say "nevermind".

It might cause McMahon to question it for a second, but he's already cashed in $400 million worth of stock to fund the XFL. He's all in.